All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2011 // The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to rescind an unpopular business tax reporting requirement in the year-old healthcare law, but the measure could be delayed by a dispute with Senate Democrats over how to...
Mar 4 2011 // A U.S. judge Thursday put on hold his ruling that President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul was unconstitutional, allowing the White House to continue implementing the landmark legislation for now.But U.S....
Mar 2 2011 // Aging survivors of the Nazi Holocaust plan to protest outside a political fundraiser in Miami Beach featuring President Barack Obama this week to publicize their struggle to collect what they say is $20 billion in Jewish...
Mar 1 2011 // A California legislator has proposed a surplus lines bill — one effect of which will reduce California’s surplus lines premium tax revenues.On Feb. 9, 2011, California Assembly Member Solario introduced Assembly...
Mar 1 2011 // Insurance companies cannot take gender into account when setting premiums and paying out benefits from annuities and retirement savings or accident cover, the European Union’s top court ruled on Tuesday.The ruling by...
Feb 28 2011 // The New Mexico Senate has passed a bill giving judges authority to aggregate the dollar amount of false insurance claims to determine the penalty before sentencing a fraudster. Judges can impose harsher sentences by...
Feb 28 2011 // New Mexico’s Senate has rejected Republican-backed proposals to stop the state from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.Two measures failed on party-line votes, with 14 Republicans voting to end the...
Feb 28 2011 // A top Illinois lawmaker is calling for an audit of the state’s questioned workers’ compensation program as it applies to state employees.The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Illinois House Speaker Michael...
Feb 28 2011 // Florida has approved lower collateral payments for another Bermuda reinsurer, the eighth foreign reinsurer to be granted this approval by the state.Tokio Millennium Re Ltd., a subsidiary of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire...
Feb 28 2011 // A judge is urging lawyers in the June trial of the only wrongful death case remaining from the Sept. 11 attacks to see if they can trim the number of defendants, but one lawyer cited lingering questions over how weapons...
Feb 27 2011 // After a lengthy battle with breast cancer, Connie Plumlee was undergoing her last reconstructive surgery when something went horribly wrong.A fire believed to have started from a cauterizing tool in the operating room...
Feb 27 2011 // The Missouri House has passed legislation that could make it harder for employees to win workplace discrimination lawsuits.The legislation, approved by 95-59 vote, would require people to prove that discrimination was the...
Feb 24 2011 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed state budget contains slightly more money for the new agency he wants to create by combining existing banking and insurance regulatory departments than they now get.Cuomo’s...
Feb 24 2011 // A federal judge this threw out a lawsuit claiming that President Barack Obama’s requirement that all Americans have health insurance violates the religious freedom of those who rely on God to protect them.U.S....
Feb 23 2011 // To increase the incentive for all Oklahoma drivers to carry mandatory liability auto insurance, a House of Representatives committee voted to prohibit uninsured drivers from being able to sue for vague “pain and...
Feb 23 2011 // The Ohio Department of Insurance announced the retirement of Bill Rossbach, an integral part of the department’s Financial Regulation operation for the past 35 years. Rossbach most recently served as chief regulatory...
Feb 23 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal regulations setting vehicle safety standards do not bar lawsuits seeking damages from automakers for installing lap-only seat belts.The unanimous ruling held that a California...
Feb 23 2011 // A bill to extend the amount of time victims of sexual abuse have to file lawsuits against their attackers and others who may have covered up the abuse cleared a major hurdle in Virginia this week.The House Courts Committee...
Feb 23 2011 // Two judges will try again this week to settle a long-running medical monitoring lawsuit over claims that Massey Energy Co. poisoned hundreds of southern West Virginia wells with coal slurry.The first mediation attempt by...
Feb 22 2011 // The amount the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has paid out in litigation costs as a result of lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Ike claims is far too high, says one Texas lawmaker who’s working on...